April 29

White Pine

Elevations, slope angles and aspects

7800-10900', angles over 35°, north facing

Snow conditions

A skiff of new snow overnight, falling on a refrozen base. A patch of two of soft was found in sheltered areas otherwise, crusted. Wind scouring added some scattered shallow drifts, not much different than the crust and boilerplate.

Snow was slow to soften at upper elevations, northeast facing after noon. West coulda been dusk. Didn't hang around to find out. Mid elevations were timely

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Weather

Clear and sunny skies, an occasional cloud drifting by at times. Cool, gradually warming temperatures. Wind from the west, gusting over 20 mph along the upper elevation ridges.

Evaluation

Stable snow was found at all elevations. Risk of taking a slider on crusts was greater than any potential for avalanche. Weather guess suggests the same for tomorrow. Could see a little corn, most likely, below 10k.

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